The ICC has concluded its investigation into the documentary programme‘Cricket’s Match Fixers’ broadcast by Al Jazeera on May 27 2018. No chargeswill be bought under the ICC Anti-Corruption Code against any of the fiveParticipants to the Code who featured in the programme due to insufficientcredible and reliable evidence.

The comprehensive investigation focused on three main areas: the claimsmade by the programme, the suspects who were part of it and how theprogramme gathered evidence.

The programme alleged that two matches were fixed: India v England inChennai in 2016 and India v Australia in Ranchi in 2017. To assess whetherthe passages of play highlighted in the programme were unusual in any way,the ICC engaged four independent betting and cricketing specialists toanalyse the claims.

All four concluded that the passages of play identified in the programmeas being allegedly fixed were entirely predictable, and thereforeimplausible as a fix.

All five Participants to the Code who featured in the programme have beeninterviewed by the ICC Integrity Unit and there is insufficient evidencebased on the normal thresholds applied through the Code to lay any charges.